Savannah marked the end of General Sherman’s March to the Sea from Atlanta.

Sherman wrote to Lincoln on December 26th of 1864: “”I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.” The march destroyed the infrastructure and psyche of the Confederacy beyond repair.

14. Germany try to forge an alliance with _______ in a secret telegram that eventually led to the U.S. entering WWI.

” We make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.”

15. Which of the following beaches was the American Army tasked with taking on D-Day.

Authorization for full military engagement in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war by Congress.

Budget to build up U.S. naval presence in the Pacific.

A peace agreement with China.

Power to fight communism “in all allied and UN territories.”

The incident would have disastrous consequences.

The Gulf of Tonkin resolution gave LBJ’s the power to escalate the Vietnam war. The Gulf of Tonkin report itself was highly flawed. It since been proven that the intelligence was deliberately manipulated in order to make it seem as though the North Vietnamese had been the instigators in the attack.